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...chairman of Boston CORE for Harvard volunteers to wage the battle against Negro discrimination in the local area. Writing with much urgency but less skill, Alan Gartner has nothing new to say about the difficulties of Negroes looking for jobs and homes. Indeed, his concern is not to enlighten, but to win recruits. He includes no more information than is necessary to soften up the reader for the inevitable appeal in the final paragraph: CORE needs...
Korean women were advised not to wear jewelry, to "shun housemaids" and do their own housework, and to help "enlighten the public on the need for contraceptives." Korean men got the word to "refrain from exchanging vain tokens," to "avoid haggling over prices," and "to shake off the idea of making 'quick money.' " Both men and women were urged to greet each other each morning with the words "Let's reconstruct!" (foreign residents, including U.S. troops, "will also be encouraged to exchange this greeting"). To keep Koreans on their toes, there will be daily "reconstruction calisthenics...
...popular fiction, France and Vamour are nearly synonymous. A foreigner attempting to enlighten the Frenchman on the subject simply invites the slings and arrows of outraged Gallic sensibility. But in fact, love and its consequences in France have a darker side: there are at least 400,000 illegal (and therefore dangerous ) abortions each year, and many authorities believe that the total is 800,000-equal to the number of live births. Authorities see a significant relation between this high abortion rate and the fact that the prescription and sale of all contraceptives is forbidden by a French law passed...
Last month Lawyer Paul Butler, a Catholic and former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, appealed the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Butler saw it as "an opportunity which may never come again to enlighten the President, the Congress, the States, the bench, the bar, the school authorities, the private educators and the country as a whole, as to what the First Amendment permits or prohibits in the form of direct financial payments of public funds to sectarian schools or to their pupils." Last week the Supreme Court refused to review the Vermont decision; the net effect, politically...
...Full text of the actual "obligation" taken by members of the Knights of Columbus' top Fourth Degree: "I swear to support the Constitution of the "United States. I pledge myself, as a Catholic citizen and a Knight of Columbus, fully to enlighten myself upon my duties as a citizen and conscientiously perform them entirely in the interest of my country, regardless of all personal consequences. I pledge myself to do all in my power to preserve the integrity and purity of the ballot and to promote respect for law and order. I promise to practice my religion consistently...